High sustained average power cw and ultrafast Yb:YAG near-diffraction- limited cryogenic solid-state laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 24770-24792

  Brown, David C ^a   Singley, Joseph M ^a   Kowalewski, Katie ^a   Guelzow, James ^a   Vitali, Victoria ^a  

^a Snake Creek Lasers LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; LASERS; LIQUID NITROGEN; YTTERBIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; CRYOGENIC LASER; CRYOGENIC SOLID; CRYOGENIC SYSTEM; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; HIGH AVERAGE POWER; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK POWER; PICOSECONDS; PULSEWIDTHS; REPETITION RATE; TIME-PERIODS; ULTRA-FAST; YAG;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 78649713321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024770     Document Type: Article

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